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Scent Verse is a poetry project curated by Basenotes writer Eddie Bulliqi that seeks to explore scent language and metaphors by publishing poems from contributors across different industries that either take scent as their inspiration or are very evocative of smell.
If you are interested in being involved, please send a direct message here on Basenotes.
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The opening is a sweet, citrusy orange that gives way to feminine florals about 10 minute seconds in. The florals stick around for a while and then you get some clean musks and sandalwood. Pretty nice smell while it lasts.
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Yves Saint Laurent decided to do something a bit risky for a change with Libre (2019), by taking a genre typically the realm of mainstream masculine tropes and subverting it for the feminine market. In actuality, this isn't all that new of an idea, a...More